Drunk-texters and the recently dumped rejoice: the brilliant new app Ansa allows you to erase those awkward texts after you’ve sent them. Of course, if the recipient (your ex) has read them, that’s another matter, but this is perfect for those ‘I sent a sext to my gran and now want to die’ moments.
The creator, 23-year-old Natalie Bryla, has branded Ansa ‘the safest place to let go, and be yourself, with friends’, but how does it work? We downloaded the app to see if it really does eradicate those arse-clenching moments where you’re waiting for that regrettable text to be marked as read. It’s like being dangled over a cliff, then dropped to your (social) death.
So, this app.
Firstly, it’s free. Secondly, it takes less than a minute to set up. Thirdly, you input your phone number to sync your phone contacts, which involves typing in a code. Fourthly, you have the option to have completely ‘Off The Record’ chats where messages on both the sender’s and recipient’s phones disappear after a set amount of time, like Snapchat but for texting. Perfect for when you both want to have a proper good bitch about your job while using your workphone.
To delete a text you’ve already sent, you simply check the box next to the offending SMS and hit ‘Sync Delete’. For Androiders, just press and hold the message before selecting the ‘Sync delete’ option on the little dropdown that appears.
The only downside of Ansa is that, in order to make sure a text can be deleted, you’ve got to send it within the Ansa app rather than your phone’s messaging service which, when you think about it, makes total sense. However, we were sort of hoping for a full-on sync because what if we’ve had too much wine and forget? WHAT IF WE FORGET TO ANSA?
Maybe Ansa will become a verb, maybe it won’t, but one thing’s for sure: if you want to send an emotionally-fuelled, rude, bitchy or highly confidential text, then it’s definitely worth downloading.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.